Riigihangete Assistant

Riigihangete Assistant (riigihanked.eu) unifies Estonian procurement law (RHS, VÕS, HMS), the VAKO Disputes Committee's full case law, live data from the Public Procurement Register and your own tender documents in a single workspace. Ask the AI, check compliance, compare prices and draft documents — for both the agencies running tenders and the companies bidding on them.

Answers with citations

Ask a question and the AI replies with exact paragraph references and the VAKO cases it relied on — no hallucinations. It searches 9,454 CPV codes, surfaces median market prices per code, syncs new tenders nightly, and drafts RHS-compliant tender terms or bid-fit analyses on request.

One platform replaces a dozen scattered sources — for the buyers running tenders and the suppliers bidding on them alike.

Structured to match the law — the four-layer model

A procurement evaluation shouldn't be one block of AI text. The law itself separates exclusion, qualification, compliance and scoring — so the software does too. The AI extracts and cites evidence, but it never infers a clean pass from missing data, and all arithmetic, thresholds and scoring formulas run on hard, deterministic code. The official always makes the final legal call.

Confidentiality built into the architecture

Suppliers submit highly sensitive material, so one bidder's confidential offer must never leak into another's analysis. Rather than trust a policy, the data-access layer simply refuses any query that reads offer data without naming the exact bidder context. Good government technology should be a little boring: it should fail closed. That rigour isn't academic — it is institutional experience from the Ministry of Finance, the Public Procurement Office and the State Shared Service Centre, baked straight into the product.

From experiments to early traction

riigihanked.eu wasn't the first attempt — years of experiments (a blog, a CPV search, GPT chatbots) taught us what officials and bidders actually need. The current version was built in about three months, heavily AI-assisted with Claude and Gemini, and already holds 70,000+ tenders. In its first month live it reached 2,500+ users, ~1,800 clicks from Google Search and 80+ registered users, and became a top Google result for procurement searches in Estonia.

It already speaks the EU's TED XML format and is built around the EU directives — so expanding beyond Estonia is a natural next step, not a rewrite.